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Intel responds to fluoride reporting omission, calls it ‘inadvertent’
Intel’s failure to report its fluoride emissions in Washington County to the state for years was an “inadvertent oversight,” a company spokeswoman said Friday in a written statement. The chip-making company has been emitting fluoride since 1978, but only recently added the pollutant to an air quality permit application with the state. Company spokeswoman Chelsea […]
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Intel has been emitting fluoride for years without state knowledge, permit
Though Intel has been emitting fluoride since 1978, the company is only now adding the pollutant to an air quality permit for its Washington County-based operations. “Fluoride is unfortunately a bit of an oversight,” state environmental engineer George Davis told Hillsboro residents at a permit meeting this week. “It should have been in the permits […]
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Oregon considers new air quality permit for Intel’s factories amid neighbor concerns
As Intel readies two massive new research factories in Hillsboro, some of its Washington County are questioning how the expansion will affect their air and community. Oregon’s Department of Environmental Quality is reviewing a new air quality permit that would cover Intel’s existing manufacturing in Aloha and at its Ronler Acres campus near Hillsboro Stadium, […]
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Should Eugene put fluoride in drinking water? Poll shows support
A poll conducted last fall after the Portland City Council approved a plan to fluoridate the city’s water showed support among Eugene residents for adding fluoride to the City of Eugene’s water. The telephone survey of 200 likely voters by the Lindholm Company in September 2012 found 59 percent supported fluoridation; 29 percent opposed the […]
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Woodland council seeks public comments on fluoride in city’s water
The fluoride debate that riled Portland this spring has come to Woodland with a public hearing planned for Monday. City Council members want to hear what residents think about a request to remove fluoride from the city’s water system. A few city residents have requested the change, starting last summer, said Mayor Grover Laeske. Norah […]
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Clean Water Portland might not attempt second fluoride vote
The group that derailed Portland’s effort to fluoridate drinking water still hasn’t decided what to do in 2014 — and apparently may choose to drop its plan to ban fluoride in the future. Clean Water Portland collected enough signatures to block the Portland City Council’s approval of fluoride and force the issue onto the ballot […]
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Portland: Anti-Fluoride Group Raising Money Again
Clean Water Portland, the political action committee that won a landslide victory over proponents of fluoridating Portland’s water in May, is not finished yet. The group reported last week reported raising $11,000, most of it in in-kind contributions for “surveys and polls.” Among the contributions are Mercola Health Resources LLC ($5,000), Organic Consumers Fund ($3,000) […]
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The Dalles: Fluoridation on City Council July 8 agenda
A public hearing on how to fund street maintenance and a discussion on fluoride top The Dalles City Council’s agenda at their Monday, July 8, meeting, starting at 5:30 p.m. at City Hall… The fluoridation issue comes before the city council as a result of concerns expressed by Robert Boyet of The Dalles during the […]
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Portland: Investigation finds no wrongdoing in how state handled dental health report
An independent review of how the state handled a dental health survey in the midst of a heated fluoridation debate in Portland has found no wrongdoing on the part of state employees. The Oregon Health Authority has staunchly maintained — and now the state’s Human Resources Department has confirmed — that there was nothing inappropriate […]
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Portland: One State Employee is Guilty of a “Minor” Fluoridated Transgression
Fluoride‘s resounding defeat in Portland is nearly a month behind us, but controversy around the most-contentious vote in recent memory lingers—sort of. The Oregon Health Authority has found in an internal investigation [PDF] one of its employees committed a “minor violation” of the state’s acceptable use policy in the run-up to the vote, when she […]
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